Reserved Instances are not available in your selected region for Pay-as-you-go subscriptions. This limitation applies to several countries, including Argentina, Brazil, China, Hong Kong SAR, India, Indonesia, Korea, Liechtenstein, Malaysia, Mexico, Russia

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Reserved Instances are not available in your selected region for Pay-as-you-go subscriptions. This limitation applies to several countries, including Argentina, Brazil, China, Hong Kong SAR, India, Indonesia, Korea, Liechtenstein, Malaysia, Mexico, Russia

Sourabh Patil 20

Reserved Instances are not available in your selected region for Pay-as-you-go subscriptions. This limitation applies to several countries, including Argentina, Brazil, China, Hong Kong SAR, India, Indonesia, Korea, Liechtenstein, Malaysia, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Taiwan, and Turkey.

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Suchitra Suregaunkar 13,975 Microsoft External Staff Moderator

Hello @Sourabh Patil Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Q&A platform.

The message you’re seeing is expected behavior in Azure, not a portal error.

Azure currently does not allow Reserved Instance (RI) purchases on Pay‑as‑you‑go subscriptions when the subscription billing country is set to certain countries, including India. In these cases, the Azure portal correctly displays “Reserved Instances are not available in your selected region for Pay‑as‑you‑go subscriptions.” This restriction is evaluated based on the subscription’s billing country, not the Azure region where the VM is deployed.

Because of this, changing the Azure region (for example, deploying the VM in East US or West Europe) will not enable RI purchases on the same Pay‑as‑you‑go subscription.

To use Reserved Instances, you’ll need to purchase them through a supported subscription offer, such as:

Enterprise Agreement (EA)
Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA)
Cloud Solution Provider (CSP)

These offer types support RI purchases even when operating in the same countries. If you remain on Pay‑as‑you‑go, the only supported option is to continue using standard PAYG pricing without reservations.

Reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/cost-management-billing/reservations/troubleshoot-no-eligible-subscriptions

So, this is a limitation of Pay‑as‑you‑go subscriptions based on billing country, and the only way to use Reserved Instances is by moving to a supported agreement type such as EA, MCA, or CSP.

Thank You,

Suchitra.

Sourabh Patil 20 Reputation points

2026-04-23T07:32:37.45+00:00

Hello @Suchitra Suregaunkar ,

Thank you for the detailed clarification regarding the limitation of Reserved Instance purchases for Pay-as-you-go subscriptions based on the billing country.

We have a follow-up query regarding the alternative options suggested (EA, MCA, or CSP):

If we move to one of these supported subscription types, will it require us to migrate all our existing workloads and infrastructure from the current Pay-as-you-go subscription to a new subscription under EA/MCA/CSP?

Or is there any possibility to convert/upgrade the existing subscription to one of these models without migration?

Understanding this will help us plan the next steps accordingly.

Looking forward to your guidance.

Thank you.
Suchitra Suregaunkar 13,975 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2026-04-23T09:15:22.17+00:00

Hello @Sourabh Patil

In Azure, a Pay‑as‑you‑go subscription cannot be converted or upgraded in‑place to EA, MCA, or CSP. These are different subscription offer types, and switching to EA/MCA/CSP always involves creating a new subscription under that agreement type.

Because of this, existing workloads and resources do not move automatically. To use Reserved Instances under EA, MCA, or CSP, you would need to migrate your workloads from the current Pay‑as‑you‑go subscription to a new subscription created under the supported agreement. Migration can be done using standard approaches such as resource moves (where supported) or redeployment, but it is a planning activity rather than a simple conversion.

Reservation eligibility and subscription capabilities are tied to the subscription offer type, and changing offer types is not supported as an in‑place operation.

Thanks,

Suchitra.
Suchitra Suregaunkar 13,975 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2026-04-24T14:47:44.52+00:00

Hello @Sourabh Patil

I hope the details shared above helped in addressing your concern.

If the suggested resolution resolved the issue, kindly consider marking the answer as "Accepted" and "Upvote" it. This helps other community members who may encounter a similar issue in the future.

If you’re still experiencing the problem or need further clarification, please feel free to share additional information so we can continue investigating and assist you further.

Thanks,

Suchitra.

Answer 2

Reserved Instances for Azure Virtual Machines are restricted for Pay-as-you-go subscriptions in certain countries and regions. For customers whose billing country/region is in the list mentioned (for example, Argentina, Brazil, China, Hong Kong SAR, India, Indonesia, Korea, Liechtenstein, Malaysia, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Taiwan, and Türkiye), Reserved Instances cannot be purchased on Pay-as-you-go offers.

In these cases, alternatives are:

Use pay-as-you-go pricing for virtual machines without reservations.
If available in the organization, use an eligible enterprise or other supported offer type that allows purchasing reservations.
For specific services such as Azure Managed Redis or Azure Databricks, check whether reservation or serverless options are available in the required Azure region, as regional feature availability varies by service.

For example:

Azure Managed Redis reservations are available in many regions (such as India Central, India South, India West, Mexico Central, North Europe, West Europe, West US, etc.) for specific plan types (Memory optimized, Balanced, Compute optimized), but Flash optimized is not available in those listed regions.
Azure Databricks serverless features are only available in selected regions (for example, EastUS, EastUS2, FranceCentral, GermanyWestCentral, JapanEast, KoreaCentral, MexicoCentral, NorthCentralUS, NorthEurope, NorwayEast, SouthAfricaNorth, EastAsia), and not in all regions like QatarCentral.

Therefore, if a Pay-as-you-go subscription in one of the restricted countries attempts to purchase Reserved Instances in a given region, the portal will show that Reserved Instances are not available. The only supported options are to run without reservations or to use a different eligible offer type where reservations are allowed, and to ensure that the target Azure region supports the desired reservation or serverless feature for the specific service.

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